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Old 11-01-2016, 09:12 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise View Post
Agreed. Street driving is much easier on engine oil (and the car as a whole) than track driving. There's just no way to push the car on the street the way you would on a track.

OP - you'll be fine running any brand-name synthetic 0w20 for street use and even some minor track use.
During the summer months were ambient temps in some places can be consistently in the triple digits or average close to and above 40*c for the metric folks, it might be a good idea to run a thicker oil if you tend to drive hard even if you don't beat on it at a track, I'd say.
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